The world of Nemo

Dear English-speaking readers, this page is an automatic Google translation from a post originally written in French. My apologies for the strange sentences and the funny mistakes that could gave been generated during the process. If you can read French, the original and correct version can be found here PetitesBullesdAilleurs.fr

The clownfish is the most popular tropical fish, thanks to the movie Finding Nemo (The world of Nemo). By sorting in my photos, I rediscovered with pleasure the clownfish that I flashed over the years. Here is the photo gallery of my little world of Nemo to me.

Nemos Photo Gallery

All the photos below were taken with my small Canon Powershot A95 compact camera.

Addition - July 2012: What progress has been made since then ... The photos below are from before 2009. I now do much better with my SLR, the Canon Eos 7D. See the photos uploaded at the end of the link below:→ Clownfish have a dirty mouth

As you may know, the clownfish is also called Anemony-fish in English, because of the anemone in which he lives. Hence the name of Nemo (atNEMOny fish) for the little Disney cartoon hero.

Clownfish are curious, but fearful most of the time. At the beginning of the film, we can see Nemo's daddy go out and then carefully return several times to the anemone, before going out again ...

It's the same for real clownfish. They keep moving, squirming, hiding and leaning back into their anemones. Not easy to photograph!

Beware of the caïds anemones!

But some are more fearless. Once, during a dive at SipadanI witnessed some amazing behavior from a very brave little clownfish.

While I was bending over the anemone to try to photograph him, he came out at full speed and ran right over the mask of my partner to hit it. Bing!

The clownfish goes on the attack!

Clownfish have teeth!

Quickly, he returned to take refuge between stinging tentacles. Then he started the maneuver again. Re-bing! I even managed to take the picture ...

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I see you did your shopping at Nemo's market !! 😉 Well, I'm proud to announce that I was first bitten by a small bastard who thought I was leaning a little too close to his girlfriend. A gesture of the finger meaning "do not do it again" warned her. ... and calmed down! (I had small gloves, which surprised me less). A + corinne

@ Helen: If now they give us Nemo on ice, where are we going? No no no! Nemo is not an icefish. Nemo loves warm seas and tropical anemones. Like me! 😉

@ Martial: Eh eh ! I knew that clownfish were more dangerous than sharks. You have escaped beautiful !!! 😆 Be wary. The teeth of the sea are not where we believe it. In fact, it's my previous article on dead skin eating fish that reminded me of Sipadan's aggressive clownfish ... In the series, I'd have to do an article about the triggerfish, a fish that has good teeth, him, and who does not hesitate to bite the divers or their fins when one has the bad idea to pass too close to his nest. 😕

Ah, I knew that the clownfish were not the nice beasties that show us the cartoons! 😆 With Martial, it's now two additional testimonials, confirming that the Nemos are not at all the type to be impressed by the divers ... I can not believe that such a small fish plays the big arms like that! 😀

As for the ballista-titans, yes, there would be things to tell. I'll have to write a little article. Especially since I have a nice photo taken at Perhentian, a cleaner shrimp perched on the teeth of a titan (yes, I dared to approach as close as possible to this image). In Koh Tao, there is even one that the dive-masters had dubbed Tyson, like the boxer, because he had bitten the ear of a customer ... 😡

😀 I'm one of those who have been brutally assaulted by a clown, many times! Between those who darken on the camera or the mask ... and those who "bite", I would rather say "pinch", because it sometimes leaves a small pink mark like a hickey ... Sometimes I think that if the clown was the size of the shark, it should seriously be wary! Certainly, there are timid ones, but some are very fearless and seriously defend their anemone against intruders ... a diver does not scare them!

😯 When the ballista, and especially the titan during the construction of his nest ... ouch! some have lost a piece of flesh or some plastic on the palms!

The clownfish is a dirty creature that must be eradicated from our coral reefs so quiet. 👿 Under deceptive and sympathetic appearances hides a little guy who reigns the terror in his neighborhood of coral by indulging in all the possible abuses, taking his anemone for a housing estate of ninecube where even a certified diver can not penetrate. I have been assaulted several times by this guy. In Bali, they even put themselves in several, while I was all alone and disarmed (I had forgotten my snorkel at the hotel bar). I shot a film of this aggression (sensitive souls abstain) to serve as evidence to my words when filing a complaint with local authorities:

Nothing has done, they have too much support from the media and politics. A tip: Never forget your snorkel, it will save your life one day when you will be alone in front of these thugs ...

A word of warning, hello !! 😉

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Added on 3/12/2008 by Corinne: I allowed myself to insert the code above to see your video, Alimata. She is really too funny and right in my subject (if it bothers you, tell me, I will remove it and leave only the link to click). To all, I invite you to discover lots of other very nice underwater videos, at this address, on the site of Alimata:http://alimata.free.fr/_general/video-sous-marine.htm 🙂

@ Thib: Delighted that you can shine in the Singaporean social dinners with this little article !!!! Watch out anyway, next time you snorkel ... 😀

@ Alimata: We are now four plaintiffs against Nemo !!! So, here, Alimata, I must say that you bring the brilliant proof of the aggressiveness of these little thugs of the coral ... 😮 I laughed so much by rediscovering your video, that I inserted it directly into your comment (see above). "The real teeth of the sea ..." EXCELLENT !!!!!! 😆

Too much, the video of Alimata 😉 Of course, these little monsters are attacking. I photographed one of them pecking at my partner's hand in Moalboal ... Your shots are beautiful. For the ballista that is nid, I prefer not to approach too much!

I keep an emotional memory of my first dives, where I exploded - literally! - to laugh at the sight of clown fish. I thought they looked nice and did not tire of observing them. It is rather the "trigger fish" (sorry, I never "dipped in French", lol) who terrorized me ... I probably did not dive often enough to see the clown fish as potential formidable beasts! Great pictures! I just love it!

@ Marie-Julie: The trigger fish (ballista titan in french language) is not very dangerous in fact. Only males during the period when they watch the eggs are aggressive. In fact they define a cone-shaped territory that starts from their nest towards the surface and attacks everything that passes in it. The diver's mistake is to go back up to escape the attack instead of going horizontally to get out of the cone

@ Manta: You know the clown fish, in addition to being a rogue thug is not very intelligent. He attacks what is most prominent. So when you present your face, it is the regulator and if you put your hand, it will attack your finger. If you want to receive the kiss of your life, remove your regulator and stretch your lips: D You can also go out the tongue ... 😛

It's now six testimonials concordant, with that of Marie-Ange (A World Elsewhere) ... To say that even a professional of the profession is not immune to these little caïds reef! 😯

In the picture I put of my pair, it was exactly the situation you describe, Marie-Ange: it was heading right into the mask. The "Nemo" way of saying, "You have beautiful eyes, you know" ❓

As for the ballista titan (trigger fish), he will not get away with this !!! I'm going to devote an article to him with his picture, where we can see in close-up his big bad naughty rabbit teeth that inflict such painful bites. No but. 😡

My apologies to everyone but I discover. Alimata is right they are terrible dirty beasts who have all seen the World of Nemo and who still have a propensity to hide in the anemones. Saw this year the smallest clowns ever seen before: 2 were on the nail of my little finger, cute archie !!! Okay, watch out for the parents who were trying to snatch the regulator ... ..